Mary A. Lynch Albany Law School, 80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 518-472-5834 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA J.D., cum laude, 1985 • Teaching Assistant: Professor Elizabeth Bartholet’s Public Interest Law, Race and Poverty course • Board Member: Prison Legal Assistance Project; Harvard Women’s Law Society; Placement Committee on Public Interest Law • Internships: Boston Juvenile Court; Jamaica Plains Legal Services Center (Housing Discrimination Cases); Greater Boston Legal Services (Race and Sex Discrimination Cases); Placement Committee on Public Interest Law
New York University, Washington Square College, New York, NY B.A., magna cum laude, 1982; majors: Economics, Political Science; minors: French, History • Honors: Phi Beta Kappa • Activities: President, University Scholars Program; Co-Founder & President, NYU Gaelic Society • Awards: Sussman Memorial Medal for Scholarship and Service; Elizabeth Claster Prize for Outstanding Character, Scholarship, and Service
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Albany Law School, Albany, NY 1989–Present
Kate Stoneman Chair in Law and Democracy 2016–present Professor of Law 1996–present Associate Clinical Professor of Law 1993 – 1996 Assistant Clinical Professor of Law 1990 – 1993 Clinical Instructor 1989 – 1990
Awards Bestowed by Albany Law: Albany Law School’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2014), Kate Stoneman Special Recognition Award for contributions to the advancement of women in the legal profession (2014).
COURSES TAUGHT
• Domestic Violence Prosecution Hybrid, Director, 2000–Present o Teach and supervise 6–9 students placed in four NYS district attorney Special Victims Units (SVUs) to prosecute abusers and work on coordinated community response to domestic violence. • Field Placement Project, Director, 1998–2000 o Taught, supervised, and managed 100+ student externship programs. • Domestic Violence Clinic, Director, Post-Conviction Remedies Clinic, 1993-1997 o Taught and supervised 6–9 students per semester, representing incarcerated battered women who killed their abusers in post-conviction proceedings, under a federal grant. Succeeded in freeing two women on clemency petitions. • Disabilities Law Clinic, 1989-1992 o Taught and supervised 8 students per semester, representing individuals with disabilities in federal, state and local courts, and on discrimination, special education and guardianship cases. • Other Courses: Domestic Violence Seminar, Disabilities Law Seminar, Criminal Procedure, Pre-trial Practice: Criminal, Pre-Trial Practice: Civil, Trial Practice: Criminal, Trial Practice: Civil, Litigation Planning and Skills, Post-Conviction Remedies Seminar
ADMINISTRATION OF CENTERS
Center for Excellence in Law Teaching (CELT) Director, 2009–Present • Organize and host roundtables, faculty workshops, and outside speaker presentations on teaching, assessment, and curriculum innovations. • Develop criteria and protocols for awards, and monitor the outcomes related to summer teaching stipends and teaching assistant grants when available. • Provide support for faculty members’ individual teaching concerns. • Design and maintain the website, www.teachinglawstudents.com, as a clearinghouse for teaching innovation materials. • Editor, Best Practices for Legal Education blog, http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/ sponsored by the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). This blog won first place in the ABA Journal Blawg 100’s Careers/Law School category in 2014 and was awarded ABA TOP 100 Blogs for a legal audience in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2018, the blog was inaugurated into the ABA Journal Blawg Hall of Fame. • Hosted Inaugural CELT Conference “Setting and Assessing Learning Objectives from Day One,” attended by law school leaders from over forty law schools, in March 2012. • Co-sponsored the May 2011 conference on “Best Practices in Skill Building in Teaching Land Use, Environmental and Sustainable Development Law.”
Albany Law School Clinic & Justice Center, Albany, NY Director, Co-Director, 2001–2009 • Faculty Leader of the law school’s clinical program. Duties included supervision of administrative personnel, law firm operations and budget. The center consisted of a 125- student field placement program, and seven in-house legal clinics led by seven faculty members who supervised approximately fifty students per semester.
LEGAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
New York County District Attorney’s Office, Manhattan, NY Assistant District Attorney, 1985–1989 • Trial Bureau, 1987–1989: Staffed misdemeanor and felony level courts. Prosecuted assaults, robberies, burglaries, narcotics crimes, and attempted murder. • Appeals Bureau, 1985–1987: Argued before the Appellate Division, 1st Department and the New York State Court of Appeals.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Institutional Service, Student Care-Work, And Misogyny: Naming The Problem And Mitigating The Harm, 65 Villanova Law Review, 1119 (2020)
Addressing Social Loafing on Faculty Committees, 67 J. of LEGAL EDUC. 242 (2017) (with Andrea A. Curcio).
Teaching the Newly Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Values in a Changing World (chapter lead co-author with Robin Boyle, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez and Rhonda Magee) in BUILDING ON BEST PRACTICES: TRANSFORMING LEGAL EDUCATION IN A CHANGING WORLD, (Deborah Marnanville, et al. 2015)
The Importance of Experiential Learning for Development of Essential Skills in Cross Cultural and Intercultural Effectiveness, 1 J. of EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING 129 (2014).
From Kate Stoneman To Kate Stoneman Chair, Katheryn D. Katz: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United States Law School, 77 ALBANY LAW REV. 443 (2014) (with Melissa L. Breger).
Is It Time for Real Reform?: NYSBA's 20 Years of Examining the Bar Exam, 85-SEP N.Y. St. B.J. 31 (2013) (with Kim Diana Connolly).
“Law School Clinics in the Community” in TOWN AND GOWN: LEGAL STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION (Cynthia Baker & Patricia Salkin, eds., 2012).
An Evaluation of Ten Concerns About Using Outcomes in Legal Education, 38 WM. MITCHELL LAW REV. 976 (2012).
Re-vision Quest: A Law School Guide to Designing Experiential Courses Involving Real Lawyering, 56 N.Y.LAW SCH. LAW REV. 517 (2011/2012) (with lead author Deborah Maranville, Susan L. Kay, Phyllis Goldfarb, and Russell Engler).
Designing a Hybrid Domestic Violence Prosecution Clinic: Making Bedfellows of Academics, Activists and Prosecutors to Teach Students According to Clinical Theory and Best Practices, 74 MISS. LAW J. 1177 (2005).
The Application of Equal Protection to Prospective Jurors with Disabilities: Will Batson Cover Disability-Based Strikes? 57 ALB. LAW REV. 289 (1993) (cited in a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools).
Who Should Hear the Voices of Children with Disabilities: Proposed Changes in Due Process in New York's Special Education System, 55 ALB. LAW REV. 179 (1991).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Academic
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2019 Annual Villanova Law Review Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, on Oct. 25, 2019, “Framing Gender Inequities in Faculty Service as Institutional Misogyny: How Recent Research Disproves Victim-Blaming Narratives and Calls for Institutional Solutions” (with Andrea A. Curcio) Clinical Legal Education Association's New Clinician's Workshop, San Francisco, Calif., on May 4, 2019, “Assessment and Grading” (with Kelly Terry).
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on Jan. 4, 2019, "Building Bridges Across Curricular and Status Lines: Gender Inequity throughout the Legal Academy."
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on Jan. 2019, "Bridging the Divisions with Professional Identity Learning Outcomes that Encourage Cultural Competency in the Profession."
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Mar. 2018, “The Importance of Experiential Learning for Development of Essential Skills in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Effectiveness.”
Albany Law School, Panel discussion of documentary film No Mas Bebes, Sept. 2018, co- hosted by Latin American Law Students Association and Black Law Students Association.
Annual Katheryn D. Katz ’70 Memorial Lecture, Albany Law School Oct. 2017, “Femicide, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Work Left to Do.”
Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Denver, Co, Sept. 2016, “Capturing Community Expertise to Inform Student Learning.” (with Christine Chung and Nancy Maurer)
Upstate Clinical Conference, Cornell Law School, Panel Presentation, Aug. 2016, “Best Practices, Pedagogical Questions, Methods and Assessment.”
Siena College, Dr. Thea Bowman Center for Women, Oct. 2015, “Mythbusting, Domestic Violence Law and Intimate Partner Violence.” (with Dr. Maureen Hannah)
Access to Justice Conference, Fordham Law School May 2015, “Educating Students to be Culturally-Competent Lawyers.” (with Lillian Moy and Aditi K. Shah)
AALS Clinical Conference, Palm Springs, CA, May 2015, “Counselling Students in the New Normal.” (with Carolyn McKanders & Abraham Pollack)
Clinical Law Review, Clinical Writer’s Workshop, Sept. 2014, “Redeeming Legal Education: Using the New ABA Accreditation Standards to Incorporate Archetypal ‘Feminine’ Values into Law Faculty and Law School Culture.”
AALS Clinical Conference Concurrent Session, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2013, “Cross- Fertilization Comes in Many Colors: Diverse Clinical Strategies to Address Family Violence.” (with Professor Jill Engle and Jeffrey Baker)
Oxford Interdisciplinary Roundtable, 15th Annual Conference on Women and Education, Harris Manchester College in Oxford, England, March 17 to 21, 2013, “Theories about Gender Differences Regarding Institutional & Communal 'Housework' in American Law Schools in a time of Economic Distress".
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Touro Faculty Colloquium, Touro College, Central Islip, NY, Feb. 2013, “Redeeming Law Schools: How Do Outcomes Fit In?”
William Mitchell Faculty Workshop, St. Paul, MN, April 2012, “An Evaluation of Ten Concerns About Using Outcomes in Legal Education”
CELT Inaugural Conference, Albany, NY, March 2012, “Bringing Ideas for Setting and Assessing Learning Objectives Back to Your Institutions”
Albany Law Review State Constitutional Law Symposium, Albany, NY, Feb. 2012, “Introduction of Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, Great Women, Great Chiefs.” Society for American Law Teachers (SALT) Bi-Annual Teaching Conference, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, HI, Dec. 2011. “Is it a Clinic, an Externship or Something Else? Shedding Orthodoxies While Developing Transformative Conceptual Frameworks for Experiential Learning Opportunities.” (with D. Maranville, P. Goldfarb & S. Kay)
AALS Clinical Conference, Seattle, Wash., June 2011, “Beyond Best Practices: Integrating Cultural, Competence Training in Legal Education”
Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Conference, New York Law School, June 2011, “Using Rubrics to Assess and Engage Law Students.” (with Connie Mayer, Michele Pistone, and Marisa S. Cianciarulo)
Best Practices for Skill Building in Teaching Land Use, Environmental, and Sustainable Development Law Conference, White Plains, N.Y., May 2011, Co-sponsor of Conference, “Introductory Overview.”
Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, May 2011, “Best Practices in American Legal Education.”
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Clinic Faculty Workshop, Bloomington, IA, June 2010, “Assessment of Students.”
AALS Clinical Section Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 2010 • Plenary Session, “Using Critical Perspectives to Inform Change.” (with Professors S. Ashar, M. Montoya, and T. Steinbach) • Concurrent Workshop, “Re-vision Quest: Choices, Context and Consequences for Experiential Education in Law School.” (with D. Maranville, P. Goldfarb, & R. Engler)
Roger Williams University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, Bristol, RI, Feb. 2010 “Best Practices, Carnegie, Outcomes-Based Learning & ABA Revisions: A Conversation about Current Initiatives & Reforms in Legal Education.”
Southern England School of Law, Faculty Workshop, North Dartmouth, MA, Oct. 2009, “Current Legal Education Reform Movement.” (with Professor C. Kaas)
Crossroads Assessment Conference, Panel Presentation, Denver, CO, Sept. 2009, “Incorporating Effective Formative Assessment into Course Planning: A Demonstration and Toolbox.” (with Professors Barbara Glesner-Fines, Carolyn Grose, & Peter Joy)
AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Concurrent Sessions, New Orleans, LA, May 2008, “Challenges Assumptions about Business as Usual in Legal Education.” (with Profs. M. Page 5 of 8
Moore-Jackson, P. Joy, A. Sedillo-Lopez, and R. Stuckey)
AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Clinical Directors Workshop, Plenary Session, New Orleans, LA, May 2007, “Dealing with External Challenges to Clinical Education.” (with Professors R. Dinnerstein & Dean R. Morgan)
Upstate-Western NY Regional Clinic Conference, Full Day Workshop, Syracuse, NY, Dec. 2007, “The Impact of ‘Best Practices’ and Carnegie on Clinics: Evaluating Ourselves Internally & Evaluating Our Place in Legal Education.” (with Professor C. Kaas)
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AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Technology Session, San Diego, CA, May 2004, “Crossing the Digital Divide.”
AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Clinical Directors Workshop, Vancouver, CA, May 2003, panel co-ordinator and presenter, “Messages Regarding Professionalism.” (with Professors A. McCaffrey & M. Aaronson)
Community Training, Panels & Legal Presentations
Albany Law Criminal Law Society Panel, Apr. 2018, “Crimmigration: At the Border of Justice and Deportation.”
Siena College, Mar. 2018, “Women’s Panel on Law and Government.”
Hudson Valley Community College, Domestic Violence Conference, Apr. 2017, “Strangulation and Its Effects on Victims” (with David Warren)
Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY, Jan. 2017, full day training, “Fundamentals of Client Interviewing: avoiding surprises, and navigating cultural similarities and differences.” (with Nancy Maurer)
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, NYC, Jul. 2016, “CLE to Pro Bono Attorneys, “Finding Clemency.”
New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Third Judicial CLE Training Program For Appellate Court Attorneys, New York State Bar Association, Albany, NY, Sept. 2013, “Avoiding Unintended Consequences: Understanding Recent Statistics & the Difficulty of Holding Abusers Accountable in 2013.” (with Lisa Frisch & Professor Sarah Rogerson)
Albany Law School Women’s Law Caucus, Albany, NY, Mar. 2013, “Saving Face: Documentary Screening and Panel on Ending Violence Against Women.”
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, Jan. 2013 “Interpersonal Violence: The Intersection between the Legal and Medical Fields”(with Alicia Ouellette)
NYS Bar Association, Committee on Legal Education & Admission to the Bar, New York, NY, Sept. 2008 “Best Practices for Legal Education Update.”
NYS Legal Partnership Conference, Albany, NY, Sept. 2008, “Implicit Bias and Cross- Cultural Competence in Legal Practice.” (with Lillian Moy)
BAR ADMISSIONS
• New York State, 1986 • United States Federal District Court, 1990
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATION WORK
• AALS, Clinical Legal Education Section, Member, 1990–Present; Executive Committee Member, 2008–2010, Co-Chair of Awards Committee, 2014-15. • Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), Co-President, 2015, Co-Vice-President, 2014, Executive Committee and Board Member, 2014-2016, Member, 1990–Present; Co- Chair, Best Practices Implementation Committee, 2006–2010; Advocacy Committee, 2014-present. Page 7 of 8
• New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) o Active Member of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 2011-2015; Organized Focus Groups in the Capital Region NYS Court of Appeals Proposed Adoption of the UBE and Proposed Skills Certification. o NYSBA Future of the Legal Profession Taskforce, Educating and Training New Lawyers Subcommittee, 2010–2011. o Committee on Issues Affecting People with Disabilities, Member, 1989–1993; Conference Scholarship Committee, Member, 1992–1993; Legislative Subcommittee, Member, 1991 • New York State Regents Commission on Disability, Co-Chair of Committee on Legal and Economic Issues, 1991–1993; Co-author and editor of committee's portion of Final Report
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Violence against Women Issues • Incarcerated Gender Violence Survivors Initiative, 2017-Present • Albany County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1994–Present • Albany County District Attorney Advisory Board, 2009–2012 • Albany City Court Domestic Violence Taskforce, 2006–2012 • Rensselaer County Taskforce Against Violence, Member, 1999–2002 • Taskforce Developing a DV Criminal Court, Troy City Court, 1999–2002 • Integrated Domestic Violence Court (IDV), Advisory Committee Member, 2000–2001 • Coalition for Women Prisoners, 1993–1997 (Chair of the Committee on Women's Program Services, Author of Committee's portion of 1995 Lobbying Position Paper)
Other Community Service • Northern District of New York Federal Bar Association, “Trial of Susan B. Anthony," played lead role in re-enactment at the James M. Hanley Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Syracuse, N.Y., April, 2018 and at the James T. Foley Federal Courthouse in Albany, NY, November 2017. • Empire Justice Center, Board Member, Secretary, January 2009–December 2010 • Sand Lake Arts Center, Advisory Board, 2010–Present • Parents and Professionals Special Education Advocacy Council (PPSEAC), Board Member and Counsel, 1990–1997; Co-counsel, 1997–2000; Co-chair of Publicity Committee, 1993; Former member of Scholarship and Restructuring Committees • Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Volunteer, Rensselaer County, 1989–1993; New York City, 1986–1989
AWARDS • ABA Journal’s Blawg Hall of Fame, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/blawg_hall_of_fame • Irish Legal 100, 2011 Honoree of the Irish Voice newspaper, http://www.irishlegal100.com/ • Top 100 Irish Americans, 1996, Irish America magazine, https://irishamerica.com/top- 100/ • National Organization of Women, Capital Region, Making Waves Award, 1997
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